A 7 year-old asks Neil deGrasse Tyson what would happen if two black holes collide.
It’s wonderful. You da man, Clayton.
Oh, and the answer will make your head spin in the all the best ways.
(by KaluzaPryme)
Beastie Boys - Dad remakes the Beastie’s Sabotage video…with his kids. Awesome.
Mad Men Season 5 promo, now embedded.
(via thedailywhat, ontd)
How do you protect yourself from being tracked by Google? I provide some tips in this Tech Tonic video for @ReutersTV
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Look who is intolerant now.
Andrew Breitbart Loses It At Occupy Protesters outside CPAC (by bornofstardust)
This is easily the best video you’ll see from CPAC all weekend. Don’t look at this as anything more than it is: Really entertaining theatre.
(via shortformblog)
Celebrate Stephen Hawking’s 70th Birthday with Errol Morris’ Film, A Brief History of Time
Today, January 8th, marks Stephen Hawking’s 70th birthday. He’s the most famous theoretical physicist of all time, one of our greatest minds, subdued in a paralyzed body.
Celebrate his life and work with the complete film A Brief History of Time, directed by Errol Morris, music by Philip Glass.
(via Open Culture)
Thirteen seconds of genius. We suspect this plastic bag would be fun to drink with.
Just heard via TMZ that Patrice Oneal, who recently had a stroke, has died.
Incredibly sad. Really smart, funny guy.
Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi appeared on Current TV’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss the “Occupy Wall Street” protests. “The movement is growing organically,” Taibbi says, “because people know there’s something to protest now.” He adds that Occupy Wall Street could spur reformers and legislators to act because “the public won’t take it anymore.”
(via Rolling Stone)
MSNBC’s “Up with Chris Hayes” — A great discussion about #OCCUPYWALLSTREET, covering everything from media bias to how the General Assembly works.
(via sarahlee310)
wnyc:
Vlad, The Wall Street Occupier
Ten years ago, Vlad Teichberg was a derivatives trader on Wall Street. Today, he is one of many protesters who have set up camp downtown to demonstrate against Wall Street and all it stands for.
I just wrote for @fastcompany about a new subscription service that lets intelligence agencies, academics and police/military stream from a library of 15,000+ terrorist propaganda videos. Think of it as “The Netflix of Terrorism.”
Looking forward to your follow-up on “The Qwikster of Terrorism,” and the resulting consumer uproar within the CIA’s ranks!
Just watched this gripping doc on PBS “Better This World” that looks at two friends, Brad Crowder and David McKay, who are sentenced to jail for alledgedly plotting to use molotov cocktails on police officers to protest during the 2008 Republican National Convention.
It also tells the story of alleged agent provocateur Brandon Darby, an activist turned informant, and examines if he entrapped the two boys or simply worked to prevent them from killing police officers.
FRONTLINE : The Man Who Knew
“We don’t know what would have happened if John could have done his job in Yemen and had really had the full back-up to go and to really push in Yemen and what kind of networks he could have exposed. But you know, we do know there were Yemenis involved in the attacks of September 11th. So is it possible that if he had been able to really open up that network and really expose that network, that he could have in some way deterred the tragedy of September 11th? I don’t think we know, but it’s sad because we won’t know the answer to that. But I think there is a fighting — he would have had had a fighting chance if he’d been able to do his job.” - Chris Isham, ABC News
John O’Neill wound up leaving the FBI and went to work, of all places, as head of security at the World Trade Center, and was one of the victims of the attack on 9/11
